Headlines screaming "several warplanes crashed" but how many is several? Personally, I don't think of 3 as being several, there were actually 3. Several is a few more, isn't it? 5, 6, 7 or 8? www.sciencebase.com/science-blog...

Marsh Harrier over NT Wicken Fen (Adventurer's Fen) a few days ago almost looked metallic in the winter low #UKBirding

Early Grey brings the 2026 garden total to 54 of 10 species #teamMoth

Several loaded females in the pond and at least one that's done her job already #SpawnHub

Spawn again amphibians #amplexus #frogs

Spawn again this morning, here in Cambs. #frogSpawn Can't find PondDip's 2026 sheet to add our data point though, anyone got a link? #SpawnHub

First time I saw #Rush the band, I paid £4.50 for my ticket. Newcastle City Hall, June 1980. That's about 20 quid in today's money. I strongly suspect when Rush's UK tickets go on sale in an hour's time they'll be well over 100 quid, maybe 145 or thereabouts

8x Common Quaker, 2x Hebrew Character, and 2x Clouded Drab (first ones of the year) #teamMoth Cambs, VC29 I'd put the trap closer to the middle of the garden, but also it was warmer, so who knows what made the difference

Just seen a Hawthorn Shield Bug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale) on the bedroom window, don't usually see these until the summer...presumably it was hibernating under the bed... Now, that I've pasted its binomial, I'm wondering about the etymology of "haemorrhoidale"

Almost swamped last night, hahaha #teamMoth 4x Common Quaker 1x Hebrew Character 1x Agonopterix alstromeriana and NFG Tortricodes alternella (Spring Harbinger)

Had my first moth query of the year from a non-mothing friend. It was an Oak Beauty on her garden wall #teamMoth Now, *I* haven't even had OB this year yet, dammit...

Our daughter, who was a student radio DJ back in her uni days, grabbed a set of cans for my 60th birthday bash and did us a monster mix playlist to top-and-tail my band's sets #bangers open.spotify.com/playlist/6J1...

No spawning yet, but just noticed a frog moving in our pond, first sighting this year

Sporadic lighting-up sessions so far this year. Have only had four species of moth and one of those was indoors and nothing to do with the lemp, I don't usually see much until March, so not unusual #teamMoth

I share a birthday with one of my muso collaborator's daughters. She's just turned 15, I've just turned 60, I sent her my birthday wishes via her Dad. Apparently, she said, "Well, that’s not all that old but I guess it wouldn’t qualify as tragic if he died"...

Had a blast with loads of my favourite people, second last night of my 50s. I know, right? Shurely some mishtake...

Ruddy Turnstone having a ruddy good shake #TenerifeBirding

Blue-crowned Parakeets on #Tenerife, I'm not sure they're actually recorded there as naturalised, they're perhaps escapees. #Birding

Found a nice patch near Los Gigantes with lots of Canaries, Canarian Chiffchaffs, and at least two pairs of Sardinian Warbler. They're quite happy to perch prominently, ever so briefly but love nothing better than darting into the bushes when you get a focus lock on them! Not this time, mister!

Confession time...distant "Linnet" in a tree at RSPB Fowlmere this morning, the sighting of which I gave to the RSPB rep, somehow morphed in-camera on our way home to reveal itself as a Redpoll. It's obvious from this snap, but from the pre-flight views not so much, the flush of blush confusled me.

Of the winter thrushes there were hundreds of Fieldfare and a few Redwing at RSPB Fowlmere this morning. Several Song Thrush and Mistle Thrush too, and of course Blackbirds. #Turdus Missing Ring Ouzel from the British list

No Wogan this evening #teamMoth March Moth!

Couple of Cranes at one of our local ex-gravelpits. They were calling at each other the whole we walked around the site. A little bit of posturing, but I assume it's bonding rather than full-on courting at this point in the season. #UKBirding This species is thriving locally these days, 100+ birds

I started in #scicomm back in the 80s...not too long after Bodmer's PUS report, although years before we really had anywhere to use hashtags, that didn't come until 2007. Feels like decades...oh, hold on...it is...

Many years ago, I wrote a song that opened with the line "Baskets of wild stone to save the land from the sea". It was an allusion to a phrase a friend used about the contents of coastal gabions, those mesh structures filled with rocks. But, seemingly we've been overfishing wild stone for too long

Uncorked the NYT Strands puzzle today in record time with no guesses

A bird that we have seen lots of times, unlike the Crossbill but, this one came quite close #Wren #UKBirding

@cathyhaglington.bsky.social stoked to hear Geddy teasing that there might be new Rush music after the tour

We'd not seen Crossbill until yesterday and then three turn up all at once at SWT Lackford Lakes. Here's the male, I didn't get a snap of the two females, unfortunately #UKBirding #Lifer

Worth saying that we've known that birds are descended from dinosaurs since ~1868

Lighting up on the off-chance of not seeing Wogan again. It's meant to sit at around 7 Celsius here until about 10pm #teamMoth Be nice to see an usher or an umber or anything but Sir Terry, come to that...

I created a montage image from some of my photos for my latest album cover. Overlaid a photo of a guitar over a rocky shoreline in Malta and then some pouring water into the sound hole davebradley.bandcamp.com/album/writte...

Agonopterix alstromeriana in the house last night, nothing to the #lemp. Second moth of the year #teamMoth

9 degrees C forecast overnight...potential for #teamMoth #lightingUp

Guy Garvey on R6 just played Danny Kaye's Inchworm, which is, of course, about the larvae of geometer moths #teamMoth

We're lucky to have lots of Red Kite locally, some fly over our house quite low, but most of them are active close to the nearby landfill. Here's one landing right next to the spot on which another had chosen to sunbathe this morning #UKBirding

When I posted my photo of a Nuthatch that had turned up on our patch (quite a rarity for this village), it got more likes than any other photo I'd ever posted on Insta, no idea why... #UKBirding The bird was about 40 feet above my head, so this is massively zoomed and cropped and not the clearest

New phone screen protector installed. This one came with two little stickers you put on each end so you could lower it on to the phone screen without surgical skills to avoid touching the back. More to the point... #NoBubbles

Too often, I overlook hashtags, so to compensate, here's too many #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Moon #Lunar #NightSky #Space #MoonPhotography #Selene Oh, and a song... davebradley.bandcamp.com/track/luna

I need to fix up my old telescope and cross my fingers for at least one clear night while Jupiter is so close... Meanwhile, a photo I took with my phone through the telescope

Whooper Swan at Sundown. Incidentally, the w is silent...in the word Whooper, obvs #UKBirding WWT Welney, 2026-01-02

Fluffed up and Framed Stonechat, one of several at WWT Welney darting about between hides and trying not to succumb to the icy chill on 2nd Jan #UKBirding

Spot the Snipe... ...a lot easier when they're wading in the water than when they're waddling in the weeds #UKBirding

UKSnowMap has the best weather icon on social media

#UKSnow CB24 2/10 @uksnowmap.com

Whooper Swan at WWT Welney, one of the injured birds that no longer migrate. Looking mighty peeved at the Pochards, Mallards, and Tufted Ducks frantically feeding around it #UKBirding

Garden TrailCam has mainly picked up rat (1x), cat (4x), Mrs Sciencebase (1x), Sciencebase Jr (1x), Postie (1x), Me....and....and...yes Fox (1x backend). 19h45! Pleased with that (the camera's auto-clock seems to be an hour fast though and no way to fix)

Okay, the sprouts are on, should be ready for just after the King's speech

Chris Rea RIP, latest artist famed (in part) for a Christmas tune to sadly die at this time of year. www.sciencebase.com/science-blog...

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